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Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth where rust or moths corrupts or where thieves break in and steal but lay up treasures in heaven where moth and rust does not corrupt and thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is there will your heart be also.
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So many people love money. 1st Timothy 6:10 warns, "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." What a miserable existence to live from day-to-day, with making more money as one's top priority in life.

The greatest things in life are not things. I know men who are consumed with making money, working all the overtime they possibly can, at the expense of family time. So many people are slaves to their job, thinking that they have to work overtime to make ends meet. I'd rather be in debt than not be at home with my family on my scheduled days off from work. It is a matter of priorities.

The love of money is the sin of covetousness. We don't hear too many sermons nowadays against covetousness, but it is just as vile and wicked as the sin of homosexuality. 1st Timothy 6:8 states, "And having food and raiment let us be therewith content." The Bible tells us to be satisfied with just food and clothing. Are you listening? The average person today is covetous and; therefore, thinks they need all the latest electronic gizmos and gadgets. I've seen ads on TV where you can buy a video game system for nearly $1,000, allowing buyers to make monthly payments for years to come. That's insane folks! If you buy a video game and have to make monthly payments to pay for it, you need serious help.

The United States has become a dangerous place to live my friend. The sin of covetousness has broken up more marriages, homes, and churches than any other sin. Covetousness causes people to go into debt, make rash financial decisions based on greed, entrap themselves in financial investments, lose their homes and work long hours at the expense of their marriage and family. You don't need that money friend, because it will cost you more than you could ever possibly imagine.

Many young women today are postponing having children, pursuing career opportunities instead. How tragic! 1st Timothy 5:14 states, "I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. For some are already turned aside after Satan." Many women today have already turned aside after Satan, i.e., they are following Satan's plan for their life—forfeiting having children, living for money, and disobeying God's will for their life. It's your choice ladies. Will you be content with food and raiment as the Bible teaches; or do you think you need a designer kitchen, fancy car, home theatre entertainment system, and everything else that the sinful world has to offer.

So many women have sold their virtue on the vile alter of covetousness. Pornography has become a major online epidemic. Did you know that 12% of all websites are now pornographic? [SOURCE] This is so sad and evil. All across America, movie theater owners are increasingly showing "adult-only" films. Playboy magazine, and all such adulterous publications, have contributed woefully to the destruction of America. This sick filth is legal.

People by nature seek to blame others for their sins. The Devil made me do it. You are accountable to God for your own sins, and cannot blame anyone else (Romans 14:12; 2nd Corinthians 5:10-11). Oh, that people would serve the Lord, depart from sin and become soul-winners for Christ (Proverb 11:30).

Life is short my friend, and you've only got one chance to get it right. I can't imagine for the life of me, why any woman would want to wait until she's in her late 30s or 40s to have a family. God didn't intend for it to be that way. I can't help but wonder how many childless career women, when they've reached 45 years of age, gaze from their expensive automobile at a mother with all her children hugging her. Was your career worth it? Instead of having your own children to hug and love you, you've got a bunch of headaches and material “things” to keep you company in your old age.

The Devil saw you coming. These are some of the “many sorrows” spoken of in 1st Timothy 6:10, which will pierce through your heart every time you realize what you could have had; but you loved money instead. It is the love of money that causes many young women to abort their precious baby. There is an evil agenda at work by the ruling elite to prevent you from having children, by trashing out the economy and forcing you into poverty.


How to Lay Up Treasures in Heaven

1. YOU MUST BE SAVED.

You MUST be a born-again Christian. I don't care how much you may think you're doing for God, or in Jesus' name, it will all amount to absolutely NOTHING if you die in your sins without Christ (John 8:24). The Bible makes this clear in Matthew 7:21-23, "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

2. Please David J. Stewart's book, REWARDS IN HEAVEN.

3. SOULWINNING.

Jesus said in Mark 10:29-30, "Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life."

Daniel 12:3 promises, "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." What righteousness is Daniel speaking of? He is speaking about the righteousness of Jesus Christ, "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth" (Romans 10:3,4). Religion is man's self-righteousness; BUT, salvation is God's righteousness, which is the righteousness of Jesus Christ imputed to every believer at the time of salvation.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we have no righteousness of our own (Isaiah 64:6). I am not trusting in my righteousness for salvation; but in Christ's righteousness, for it was His precious blood that washed my sins away (1st Peter 1:18,19). Daniel 12:3 promises that every believer who turns many lost sinners to the righteousness of Jesus Christ for salvation, will shine as the brightness of the stars forever. Do you know why? It's because we will see all those redeemed souls in Heaven that came to the Lord through our witness and ministry, and what a joy that will be!

Proverb 11:30 states, "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise." There is nothing more dear to the heart of God than soulwinning. Oh how tragic that so many believers today are choked by the cares and riches of this sinful world, and have forgotten the Lord... Luke 8:14, "And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection." Every Christian should be a soulwinner! If you want true wealth, everlasting wealth that this temporal materialistic world could never offer, then become a soulwinner my friend.

If you'd like to learn more about soulwinning, then please visit the website:

www.soulwinning.info
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:icongreysoulxanima:
Agreed this is an amazing essay! Well done and God bless, sister in Christ.
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~garfield1978 Oct 3, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
An amazing essay.

I can only agree whole-heartedly with the statements within.
And I can say with confidence: that though my faith is fluctuating, and there are times in which I feel low and need my faith to be re-energized, I will continue to know this, and praise the LORD for it:

That I helped bring two souls to Christ.

One of them I had prayed for months. The other simply happened. Both ways, I can only thank the LORD -- because from Him is it possible for us to understand the Bible and the words within in the way they were meant to be understood.

This society is wrong in its ways. Oh so very wrong. But I have hope that one day things will cycle and all will get better again. We just gotta pray and lean on God. We just gotta have hope for the things we can't change alone.
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~glaceon-rules Oct 3, 2011  Hobbyist Artist
Your signature says it all.
"Nothing was gained under the sun"
Nothing was gained on earth, in the end.
that is always true
But what was gained in Heaven? THat's what really matters.
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~garfield1978 Oct 3, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Amen.

I wouldn't dare risk what I have for something short and superficial. So many times I'm reminded of how deep and deep-cutting Christ is when you actually let Him take control, and the amazing things that happen when you actually rely on Him for the things that you can't change, and the stories you can tell when you have to suffer and feel pain.

I wouldn't give up the treasures I already have that matter so much for something that could so easily be stolen away from me. But in Christ we will not be removed from Him, because nothing is greater than God. So often I try to remind myself of what I need to trust in order to keep going day after day.

And when I do remember, and act upon it, the results are stunning.
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